Dr. Michael Yellow Bird

Associate Professor, Global Indigenous Nations Studies Email: mybird@ku.edu Phone: 785-864-2661 Office: 206 Lippincott

Research Interests

Michael Yellow Bird (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Professor Yellow Bird is a citizen of the Sahnish and Hidatsa First Nations. He is a professor of Global Indigenous Nations Studies and served as director for two and a half years. He has held faculty appointments at the University of British Columbia, Arizona State University, and in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. He is currently co-editing, with Dr. Angela Cavender Wilson, For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Workbook and Social Work Practice with First Nations Peoples: Systems of Helping in the next Millennium, with Drs. Hilary Weaver and Charlotte Goodluck. His research interests focus on Indigenous Peoples, U.S. foreign policy, oral histories of Native Vietnam combat veterans, the effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization, Indigenous men, human rights, and Indigenous political prisoners and prisoner rights. He has conducted research that has supported the empowerment of numerous tribal communities, served as a rapporteur for the health and human rights working group during the Indigenous Peoples International Day at the United Nations, and has been a featured speaker, both nationally and internationally, on topics important to the well being of Indigenous communities.